EARLY ALERT   

Early Alert is the premiere emergency management company providing information resources for potentially threatening situation, such as a hurricane, severe weather event, or man-made disaster. Expert advice as to what actions you, your business or agency should take to protect the lives of employees and property!

http://www.rms.com/Publications/SumatraInsuredLoss_RMSwhitepaper.pdf   

This Risk Management Solutions Special Report "Estimating Losses from the 2004 Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami" sets out the main lines of business that will be affected by the 2004 Asian tsunami, identifies the key drivers of insured losses, and estimates their magnitude.

Institute for Business & Home Safety   

A new guide from IBHS and the United States Small Business Administration that introduces disaster planning and recovery for the small business owner. Suggestions on steps you can take to protect your building, contents, employees and customers from earthquake damage is included in this guide.

National Association of Radio-Distress Signaling and Infocommunications - Current World Disasters Map   

The National Association of Radio-Distress Signaling and Infocommunications, Havaria Emergency and Disaster Information Services in Budapest, Hungary, collects data on current natural and human-caused disasters around the world and provides maps as well.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, nowCOAST Web Mapping Portal to Real-Time Coastal Observations and NOAA Forecasts   

nowCOAST is a web mapping portal providing spatially-referenced links to thousands of real-time coastal observations and NOAA forecasts of interest to the marine community. The portal serves as a "one-stop shopping" web site to real-time coastal information from a variety of Internet sites both within and outside of NOAA. nowCOAST is designed to be a planning aid to assist recreational and commercial mariners, coastal managers, HAZMAT responders, computer modelers, and marine educators to discover and display real-time information for their particular needs and geographic area of interest. The portal includes links to meteorological, oceanographic, and river observations from in-situ and remote-sensing platforms from observing networks operated by federal and state agencies and educational institutions. These networks include but not limited to airway stations, climate reference stations, fixed buoys, coastal platforms, river gages, Doppler weather radars, high frequency current radars, radiosondes, and wind profilers.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association - Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale   

This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association will now rank high-impact Northeastern United States snowstorms into five categories: extreme, crippling, major, significant, and notable. The Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale index differs from other meteorological indices in that it uses population information in addition to meteorological measurements to provide an indication of a storm's societal impacts.

National Weather Service Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services.   

A calendar of severe weather awareness events for each state can be found on the Web site of the National Weather Service Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services.

Pulblic Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada - Canadian Disaster Database   

The Canadian Disaster Database contains historical information on disasters which have directly affected Canadians, at home and abroad, over the past century. References to all types of Canadian disasters, including those triggered by natural hazards, technological hazards or conflict (not including war) can be found here. The database describes where and when a disaster occurred, who was affected, and provides a rough estimate of the direct costs. You can search the disaster database by using criteria such as the type of disaster, and/or the location or time period of occurrence.

SHELDUS Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States   

SHELDUS is a county-level hazard data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard events types such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados. The database covers the period from 1960-2000. For each event the database includes the beginning date, location (county and state), property losses, crop losses, injuries, and fatalities that affected each county. The data set does not include Puerto Rico, Guam, or other U.S. territories. The data were derived from several existing national data sources such as National Climatic Data Center's monthly Storm Data publications and NGDC's Tsunami Event Database. Only those events that generated more than $50,000 in damages were included in SHELDUS. Data and maps were compiled and geo-referenced by the Hazards Research Lab at the University of South Carolina. This database was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the University of South Carolina's Office of the Vice President for Research.

Time Magazine   

Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Earthquakes ... Why We Don't Prepare By Amanda Ripley August, 2006

CBS News Disaster Links   

Dozens of links to categorized disaster sites, e.g.: US Government; airplane disasters; avalanche; biological & chemical contamination & toxi spills; commercial satellite disaster imagesl disaster education; disaster monitoring software; drought; earthquakes; El Nino/La Nina; emergency management; flooding; heat; hurricanes; icebergs; international disasters; refugees; landslides; lightning; oceans; oil spills; relief organizations; severe weather; state-by-state agencies; space weather; tornadoes; tsu...

Economic and Other Societal Impacts of U.S. Weather Phenomena   

Economic and Other Societal Impacts Related to Hurricanes, Floods, Tornadoes, Lightning, and Other U.S. Weather Phenomena

EFW Home Safety Disaster Links   

Find answers to questions like: Where are the brush fires? Where is it threatening to flood? What are the current National Weather Service warnings in effect right now? Where is the hurricane at now? How big was that earthquake and where was the epicenter? Where is it raining right now? Is the storm moving my way? Includes: wildland fires, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, current radar, tornadoes, traffic conditions, tsunami, volcanoes, storm prediction, meat/poultry recalls, etc.

The Emergency Email Network   

To receive Emergency Email notification of natural disasters or other emergencies in your area, from National, Regional or Local government sources. This has proven to be a really valuable tool.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Online Photo Library   

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has updated its online photo library, a collection of more than 9,200 images of natural disasters and terrorist events, including response and recovery activities, taken by FEMA's disaster photographers. The majority of photographs in the collection are in the public domain and may be downloaded, reproduced, and distributed for educational and informational purposes without further permission from FEMA.